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ELY – Wintergreen Northern Wear welcomed new owners late last year, and the downtown shopping district here gained a new and unique winter adventure business right next door with the recent …
Frank Fifo. The longtime luminary and chocolate maker died Jan. 22, in Ely, at the age of 84. Frank and his wife, Retta, âwere an important couple in the festival as it grew,â said Carol Orban, secretary of the Ely Winter Festival Board. She and festival coordinator, Shauna Vega, took a few moments recently â as the current Ely Winter Festival is underway â to remember the man appropriately known as âthe luminary guy.â Every year, Frank and Retta made dozens of ice luminaries to light the pathway at Whiteside Park and to illuminate the giant snow sculptures carve...